✕ This animation shows cumulative QSO activity by US state over the contest period. A state or province lights up when any logged station records a QSO with a station from that location — so they appear even if no log was submitted. Alaska and Hawaii are repositioned below the continental US at reduced scale; Canadian provinces are shown above the US border, compressed north-south — all three move and zoom with the main map. The color scale is relative to the current frame maximum (excluding the host state) and adjusts as the contest progresses.